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Nobel Peace Prize winner says UN failing to bring IS to justice

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Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) They were bought’ as slaves by IS husband and wife Taha al-Jumailly and Jennifer Wenisch .

Wenisch became one of the first members of IS to be tried and convicted of a war crime, in 2021 .

Nora ’s testimony was instrumental in securing their convictions.

Of tens of thousands of IS members, fewer than 20 have been convicted of war crimes.

There are up to 200 mass graves of people killed by IS.

Sixty-eight were exhumed with the support of the UN mission, 15 of them in Murad ’s village alone.

Only around 150 bodies out of thousands have been identified.

Murad also has strong words for institutions like the UN that were set up to prevent these crimes.

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